- 108 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
A fascinating cultural history of the Ottoman response to tobacco, which includes one of the earliest fatwas on the subject.
"Michot provides an introduction into the work (Risaleh Dukhaniyyeh) and an outline of the scholarly debates concerning smoking that occured in Turkey in the 16th and 17th centuries." ā Islamic Horizons
" Against Smoking is a gem of scholarship. This compact book is a major contribution to the study of Islamic pietism in general and Ottoman religious and cultural history in particular." āProfessor Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Washington University in St. Louis
One of the earliest Arabic texts against smoking, Ahmad al-Aqhisari's Epistle on Tobacco is presented here for the first time in a scholarly edition, together with a fully annotated English translation. Yahya Michot expertly sets the epistle within its Ottoman social, intellectual, and historical context. Includes thirty illustrations.
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Affairs are of three [sortsā¦] So, leave what will fill you with suspicion in favour of what will not fill you with suspicion! | 51 |
Ask for advice of women. | 12 |
Collect five thingsā¦ | 11 |
Every obnoxious individual will be in the Fire. | 52, 53 |
Everything inebriating is prohibited. | 89 |
Everything inebriating is wine and all wine is prohibited. | 37 |
God accepts the repentanceā¦ | 11 |
God Most High did not feed us fire! | 27, 58 |
O people, it is not up to me to prohibit what God has made lawful to me, but is is a plant whose smell I detest. | 55 |
Satan circulates in man like his blood. | 12 |
The excellence of a personās islÄm consists, among other things, in giving up what should not concern him. | 33 |
[There is] no obedience to a creature while disobeying the... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword by Mohammad Akram Nadwi
- Preface
- Introduction
- Translation
- Edition
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Indexes